The Budgeting advance telephone number is yet to be advertised, however we expect that the telephone number will be a free phone 0800 contact number as most DWP emergency service contact numbers are handled this way. As soon as a telephone number has been decided it will be published on this page. ***UPDATE! 26/04/2013*** IF YOU: You are awaiting an award of benefit from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and there is a delay and you have no money. In these circumstances you can apply for a short term benefit advance which was called a benefit alignment payment. To do this you need to contact the DWP on 0845 608 8637 and select the option for the benefit you are waiting for. You must tell the DWP that you require a short term benefit advance not a crisis loan. You require a budgeting loan or budgeting advance.? If so, please contact the DWP on 0845 603 6967. A budgeting loan will help to pay for essential things like rent, furniture, clothes or hire purchase debts and the smallest amount you can borrow is ?100. As with other DWP loans, the application process will be instantiated by a telephone call or by a application downloaded and sent into the DWP. Checking up on the progress of your application can be done by telephone however it is likely that new loan applications will take several days to be logged and acknowledged by the DWP. A Aberdeen 0845 608 8749 Arbroath 0845 600 1506 / 0845 608 8749 B Barnsley 0845 608 8560 Basildon 0845 608 8575 Bathgate 0845 608 8630 Belfast 0845 608 8770 / 0845 603 5759 Birkenhead 0845 608 8529 Bolton 0845 608 8531 Bradford 0845 608 8556 Bristol 0845 608 8597 Burnley 0845 608 8502 Bury St Edmunds 0845 608 8618 C Caerphilly 0845 608 8562 Cannock 0845 608 8676 Canterbury 0845 608 8501 Carlisle 0845 608 8545 Chester 0845 608 8534 Chesterfield 0845 608 8521 Chippenham 0845 608 8621 Chorlton 0845 608 8504 Clyde and Fife 0845 608 8582 Clydebank 0845 600 1506 Coatbridge 0845 608 8645 Cosham 0845 608 8573 D Derby 0845 608 8506 Doncaster 0845 608 8508 Dover 0845 608 8626 E Exeter 0845 608 8564 F G Glasgow 0845 603 6347 Gloucester 0845 608 8624 Greenock 0845 608 8598 H Hackney 0845 600 6334 Halifax 0845 608 8548 Handsworth 0845 608 8648 Hanley 0845 608 8673 Hastings 0845 608 8757 Hull 0845 608 8546 Huyton 0845 608 8535 Hyde 0845 608 8526 I Ilford 0845 600 2612 Inverness 0845 600 1506 J K Kilmarnock 0845 608 8632 L Leeds 0845 608 8590 Leicester 0845 608 8525 Lincoln 0845 608 8532 Llanelli 0845 608 8554 Luton 0845 608 8627 M Makerfield 0845 377 6001 Mansfield 0845 608 8521 Merthyr Tydfil 0845 608 8552 Milton Keynes 0845 608 8573 N Newcastle 0845 608 8642 Newport 0845 608 8569 / 0845 600 3018 Norwich 0845 608 8571 Nottingham 0845 608 8528 O Oldham 0845 608 8523 P Peterborough 0845 608 8603 Plymouth 0845 603 6095 Preston 0845 608 8524 Q R Ramsgate 0845 608 8626 Ravenhurst 0845 608 8657 S Sheffield 0845 600 1267 St Austell 0845 608 8578 St Helens 0845 608 8503 Stockton 0845 600 8643 Stratford 0845 600 0148 Sunderland 0845 608 8637 T Totton 0845 608 8620 V W Walsall 0845 602 0206 Watford 0845 608 8583 Wellingborough 0845 609 4904 Wolverhampton 0845 600 3115 Worcester 0845 608 8665 Worthing 0845 608 8715 Wrexham 0845 600 3016 X Y York 0845 608 8550 Z
Do you know of any landline numbers that aren’t 0845? It costs a fortune holding on while you wait for someone to answer your call. There were a few on the saynoto0870 but they don’t seem to work anymore! Reply
Hi I need a alternative number to call u from I live in Sheffield or is it possible u can call me thank you Reply
i live in bolton, greater manchester and i dont know where to send my budgeting loan application form. I printed it out online and filled it all in but there is no address to send it to. my local job centre said they wont take it off me. can you please tell me the address its really urgent. thanks Reply
Hi, I need a Short Term Benefit Loan for the purpose of covering travelling expenses to a Teaching Training Course. I haven;t been and am not intending to be on any type of benefit (always working and managing the hard times), but as the Course has started all of a sudden, I find it difficult to travel between Manchester and London for the next 7 days. I didn’t have time to plan for it. Should my request by accepted, I would be able to pay it back weekly, from my income. Please contact me as soon as possible, the starting date is 8-th of January, thank you! Reply